Nottinghamshire Power Station Arrests Update.

All 114 Released Without Charge.

I should start by pointing out that I have no information linking those arrested with the Climate Camp. I only described them as such as a lazy way to summarize the dozen or so protest groups who campaign on the issue of climate change.

After yesterday's massive police raid which features over 200 officers from four separate police forces the police have been forced to release all those arrested without charge. All 114 will have to return to a police station on July 15th when the police will decide if they enough evidence to charge any of the arrested and proceed with one of the largest conspiracy trials in history or as is more likely they will completely withdraw the allegation. The police have also confirmed that what they described yesterday as; "Specialist equipment that posed a serious threat to the power stations safe operation" was in fact a pair of bolt cutters and some bicycle locks.

As the police's case is so thin they've been forced to resort to playing mind games. They've done this by announcing that these arrests were the result of an intelligence led operation. The idea of this is to make the arrested group and other protest groups paranoid by suggesting there is a police informant operating within the group. This is most likely untrue because it is far more probable that the police have an informant operating within an associated group and that informant has identified target members of the arrested group. Then either the police, misusing their anti-terrorism powers, or GCHQ who rarely bother with the law have placed these target members under electronic surveillance such as telephone wiretaps, email intercepts, hard drive hacks and financial record checks. Then either a wrong word in the wrong place or a misplaced electronic transaction have given the police the wrong impression about the groups activites and objectives.

There has also been some dramatic activity in Britain's other large police investigation, the anti-terrorism case in the North West of England. On Monday evening the police summoned an Army Bomb Disposal team to an address they were searching in Liverpool. The bomb squad then proceeded to evacuate residents from surrounding streets and set up and exclusion zone. This development has me very worried because the police had been searching the address for the last week. That means that the highly trained, specialist police search team are so thick they'd been wandering round a bomb factory for 7 days with out noticing. Either that or the police only brought in the bomb squad as an act of pure theatre to try and add credibility to an investigation which has already seen one suspect released without charge.

No explosive device or components have been found and by an amazing co-incidence the police were, this morning, granted permission to detain the remaining 11 suspects for a further 7 days.

Edited to add: My software is currently preventing me from using paragraphs so I apologise if this post is a little difficult to read.